"The truth of the weak is carved out through slaughter."
Facing the other party’s killing intent, Yu Zhun felt a chilling sensation pierce through his spine. It sent a violent shudder through his body, jolting him completely awake.
"I came to see you to tell you two things," Ji Ruoxu said in a deep voice. "First, don’t let this incident affect your mindset.
"Enter the Dungeons just as you always have.
"Don’t spare a single person who deserves to die.
"If you kneel, they will only step on your head.
"They will only fear you when you kill enough of them!"
Yu Zhun’s nose tingled with emotion. Unable to hold back, he straightened his back and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Understood!!!"
A hint of a smile flashed across Ji Ruoxu’s eyes. "The second thing.
"You don’t need to worry about the impact of the [First Turn World Slaughter Order] on Blue Star, nor do you need to worry about being pushed to the center of the storm.
"Because...
"The Divine Revelation Hall has already represented Blue Star in taking the initiative to issue a [Second-Turn World Slaughter Order] against Server 23993."
***
"I thought you wouldn’t come." In front of the Teleportation Gate, Zhu Xiuming looked at Sorn, who stood beside him.
"Why wouldn’t I?" Sorn replied calmly. "Although I haven’t met that junior, he’s much more pleasing to the eye than you are.
"At the very least, he dares to kill."
"There is no need to goad me like this," Zhu Xiuming said with a slight shake of his head. "In the past, it wasn’t that I didn’t dare to kill, but rather that I didn’t dare to die."
If he died, Blue Star’s situation would be far worse than it currently was.
"And now you dare?"
"Yes." Zhu Xiuming smiled in relief. "I have peace of mind now."
His successor would be even more outstanding than he was.
"Suit yourself," Sorn said coldly, though a deeply hidden hint of amusement flashed in his indifferent eyes. "Just the two of us?"
"The others have other matters to attend to," Zhu Xiuming said, slowly tightening the sleeves of his robe. "Besides...
"I alone am an army of thousands."
"Your boasting skills haven’t faded one bit. Can you even handle this after ten years without entering a Dungeon?" Sorn curled his lips.
"You will see," Zhu Xiuming said slowly.
"Over these past ten years, I haven’t wasted a single minute.
"Let’s go. We’ll catch up with old friends and meet some new ones." Seeing the indicator light on the Teleportation Gate illuminate, Zhu Xiuming stepped forward and walked inside.
"Understood, Captain." Sorn followed closely behind, vanishing into the Teleportation Gate.
Engraved upon the dust-covered Teleportation Gate was a line of text:
Level 80 Permanent Dungeon: [Divine Prohibition Ruins].
The moment the matching was successful, Zhu Xiuming stepped into the Dungeon.
Above his head, a crimson hue eclipsed everything in its surroundings, as if transforming into a rising red sun.
A blood-colored rainbow light washed over the reverse-flowing Divine Demon Blood within the Dungeon, the distorted spatial rifts, the collapsed and shattered ten-thousand-meter statues, the fragmented battlefields, and the bottomless abyssal scars... dyeing absolutely everything in a bizarre, bloody red.
Finally, like a razor-sharp blade, it pierced the eyes of every powerhouse who had stepped into this Dungeon, unreasonably branding itself into the depths of their retinas.
[Server 45239]
[Zhu Xiuming, Level 79]
[Blood Rainbow] Zhu Xiuming has entered the Dungeon.
"That familiar feeling is back." Beside him, Sorn couldn’t help but sigh with emotion.
His own Red Name Light was equally capable of piercing the heavens and the earth, but compared to Zhu Xiuming’s, it was still far from enough.
When the Red Name Value of multiple players exceeded a certain threshold, only the one with the highest value possessed the qualification to make their name known to everyone.
In any Dungeon Zhu Xiuming entered, that person would only ever be him.
Everyone else would be utterly eclipsed.
"Captain." Sorn looked at Zhu Xiuming and chuckled. "Just this isn’t enough, you know."
"How about this, then?"
Zhu Xiuming tightly gripped his Heavy Sword, which blazed with a spectral blue flame, and violently thrust it into the earth.
A ballad of death began to play. The dilapidated world of ruins instantly deteriorated into a realm of the underworld. Spectral blue flames danced and pulsed across the nether soil, illuminating a series of hideous silhouettes that crawled out from the earth and stood behind Zhu Xiuming.
Hundreds... thousands... tens of thousands...
It seemed as though there was no end.
SSS-rank Talent: [Unrivaled Command].
After killing a non-player unit, the user could summon that unit to fight for them until the unit died.
Originally, this wasn’t considered a particularly powerful SSS-rank Talent.
This was because the owner of this Talent had to continuously kill non-player units. The moment there were no units left to summon, their combat strength would drastically plummet.
However, Zhu Xiuming possessed a special Profession change pathway.
[Warrior] - [Undead Knight] - [Undead Commander]
The Undead Knight Profession pathway, which transformed death into life, allowed Zhu Xiuming to convert the summoned units into friendly non-player undead units. While retaining their full strength...
As long as he did not die, the undead would live forever.
Everyone knew that [Blood Rainbow] Zhu Xiuming had killed countless people, his Red Name Light blazing like a crimson rainbow.
Yet very few knew that the number of non-player units Zhu Xiuming had killed was far, far greater than the number of people he had slaughtered.
"You..." Sorn’s gaze shifted to the space behind Zhu Xiuming.
From Level 20 to Level 80, the Bosses, Elite Monsters, and regular monsters of every Dungeon formed uniform Undead Legions, which then merged into an invincible undead army.
Sorn was far too familiar with this undead army.
Because ten years ago, when the two of them fought side-by-side, it was exactly these figures standing behind Zhu Xiuming.
But now...
Behind Zhu Xiuming stood another army of death, its scale completely on par with the first.
They... no, it would be more accurate to say "it." At this moment, they unleashed earth-shattering roars, using their monstrous and overwhelming ferocity to declare their inaugural descent.
Those were...
The countless Demon Beasts of the Divine Revelation World!
"I told you," Zhu Xiuming said, pulling out the Heavy Sword embedded in the earth.
"I haven’t wasted my time over these past ten years."
He raised his sword high above his head and then brought it down, pointing straight ahead.
"Flatten this place.
"Leave no one alive."
The army of Demon Beasts and the army of Dungeon monsters Charged forward with a thunderous roar. The boundless undead transformed into a massive flood, sweeping through every corner of the Dungeon’s space.
Players?
Storylines?
Mechanisms?
Absolutely everything would be reduced to dust beneath the Iron Hooves of the undead!
Sorn shook his head helplessly. At some point, a crimson longbow had appeared in his hands. "I can’t let you hog all the glory."
He drew the bow, nocked an arrow, and released the bowstring.
A powerhouse—whose figure had been ethereally weaving through the undead army, charging toward the two of them at breakneck speed in an attempt to strike the King first—was instantly reduced to a mist of blood.
SSS-rank Talent: [Bloodthirsty Bell].
Ignored target’s damage reduction; each strike dealt additional physical damage equal to 100% of the target’s maximum Life Value.
Although the extra damage dealt was physical damage rather than true damage—meaning Sorn’s attacks still couldn’t ignore Physical Defense and shields—
The effect of ignoring the target’s damage reduction had already elevated Sorn’s damage output to the absolute limit for an archer.
His Profession change pathway, however, elevated his strength to an entirely new height.
[Archer] - [Precise Spearman] - [Dawn Shooter]
Damage increased by 200%; arrows could not be blocked by weapons and possessed the additional effect of absolute hit rate.
One arrow, one life. The Funeral Bell would inevitably toll.
The Alliance Leader of the [Civil Alliance], Blue Star’s second Strongest, Level 78 Divine Revelation player, [Life Taker] Sorn.
"Captain, it is a pleasure to fight side-by-side with you once again."
***
"Through the [Second-Turn World Slaughter Order], we will launch a reverse sanction and targeted assault against Server 23993."
In the conference room, Ji Ruoxu looked at a dumbfounded Yu Zhun and spoke calmly. "Augustine, the Strongest of Server 23993, has already reached Level 90. He is only one final step away from becoming a God.
"He has been preparing for this step for a very long time.
"If he becomes a God, the second protective Mechanism will fail. The fate of their world will entirely depend on him and a large number of Second-Turn players.
"However, there aren’t many players above Level 80 in Server 23993, and the vast majority of players below Level 70 are cowards who refuse to enter 4A Dungeons. Therefore, Level 80 Dungeons are their foundational base.
"And within Level 80 Dungeons, [Blood Rainbow] is invincible."
Yu Zhun couldn’t help but widen his eyes.
He truly couldn’t fathom just how unimaginably powerful Senior Zhu Zhe was.
"As long as the [First Turn World Slaughter Order] exists for a day, the [Second-Turn World Slaughter Order] will exist for a day," Ji Ruoxu continued.
"By tearing through their foundational base, Augustine will either have to give up on becoming a God, or face having no successors after ascending. Once he dies, his world will be reduced to a Dungeon."
"But..." Yu Zhun couldn’t help but voice his confusion. "What if Augustine doesn’t die after becoming a God, and instead grows stronger and turns around to target Blue Star?"
Although Gods were restricted by rules and couldn’t attack them directly, there were many other ways to target them.
"That kind of ’what if’ won’t exist," Ji Ruoxu said, patting Yu Zhun on the shoulder meaningfully.
"Don’t forget, you once Rescued a world."